Sheriff: Man attacked, beaten unconscious at Houma Waffle House

A food fight at a Houma Waffle House broke into a fist fight and the victim will have to undergo multiple surgeries after the attack, the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office said.

The fight broke out early-Sunday morning at the Waffle House on Martin Luther King Boulevard.

According to a news release from the Sheriff’s Office, while a man was eating his food, another man, who was identified as 22-year-old Cody Chauvin, threw a sugar container at him and attacked him, punching him multiple times and kicked him in the head as he fell unconscious on the ground.

The victim was taken to the hospital where he is scheduled to undergo multiple surgeries for facial fractures, the news release said.

Chauvin was arrested at his home on Wednesday.

Chauvin told police that he attacked the victim as retaliation for a disagreement with a woman that the he and victim both associate with.

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